Re: Fair value for the Apple II on eBay

[Sean Fahey <a2fan@hotmail.com>]

On Jan 9, 10:35 am, Ken Gagne <kga...@gamebits.net> wrote:

> Certainly there have been some highly publicized recent sales of
> vintage Apple tech going for insanely great amounts, from Christie's
> Apple-1  for $213K to a Lisa 1 for $15K.  But are Apple II products
> being similarly sold for too high a price?  Is the hype from those
> other big-name sales causing an artificial inflation of market value?

I'd like to draw your attention to this bit of (imo) eBay insanity, a
NIB Apple //c sold for $5000 as Buy It Now:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140491871326

The buyer isn't new to collecting (knives), or to the Apple community
(he's a Mac user) -- but does seem to be new to the Apple II retro
(and collecting) communities. He was recently interviewed on
RetroMacCast.

The lessons here are:

1.) When selling something, set the initial price outrageously high --
or even higher than that -- because collectors, speculators, fools and
the ignorant might just fall for it.

2.) You can always lower your price later.